Born in 1946, Peter Singer is arriving at THAT age, the age where mortality (health is deteriorating) is licking at his feet. Go to any nursing home and you will bump into those who can not stand to see the world progress without them, who would prefer to believe the world will end when they do. End of times and end of humanity are repeated prophecies over and over, though one day it will happen, who cares when and or if it does, life is for the living and those who wish to thrive within it. Let the youth be young and live a life filled with dreams of their future, they deserved it just as we did, I can't stand older people who talk of end times, to me it is indicative of their own fear being pushed off on others, I don't care for that thinking, if you want to live negativity personified, live it quietly and allow the world to find it's own future without your demise rhetoric. I look forward to the peace of eternal rest, but before it comes I will live until I literally can't stand life (my body betrays my mind) and then die to the best of my abilities without drowning the world in my sorrow of an unfulfilled life, or a life I still want to fulfill as my mind is healthy and my body ages beyond its workings.
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And is the continuance of our species justifiable in the face of our knowledge that it will certainly bring suffering to innocent future human beings?
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Life is suffering, but lack of life is nothing, nothing at all, no joy, no peace, no happiness, no wisdom, no love, no friendship, no pain, no excitement, no art, no beauty, no fun, no matter what each generation thinks as the end arrives before them, the world will continue to embrace the next generation, and the generations after that, who are any of us to decide now the fate of our children or our children’s children or generations beyond our sight, who are we to stop the potential of mankind in its great discoveries that could lay just around the proverbial corner. I would love to see around that corner, but alas I will only know the answers if we turn them in my lifetime, though I see many answers from corners already maneuvered. Life is such a blessing, death is merely a release from an aged body and it will always be scary if you have loved living, but to look back and feel that the miseries of life have out-weighted the beauty of a late death, after 70 years of being in the world with your fellow humans experiencing breathing, then don’t fuck it up for the young people, just keep your mouth shut if you can’t spread hope of a great future resplendent with peace and harmony. What will it matter when your dead anyways, why be a harbinger of despair (there are plenty of those already), the end will come or it won’t, walk a peaceful and blessed path and hope mankind will follow, die happy and hope you children will know the same spirituality of peace, happiness is a state of mind, mind you state and bring the children with you, happiness is a state of being, being happy makes a life worth living, live happy, die happier that you were blessed to even experience life and the world will follow your lead.
Peace lives on the currents of movements, death resides in stagnancy, and how can humanity move forward if we universally choose stagnation, “end of times” talk reeks rotten to me.